Finance & Strategy Manager, Machines

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>We are seeking a Strategic Finance leader to manage the “machines” finance function covering the chips and accelerators that run our models.&nbsp;</p> <p>In this role, you will be a key partner to our hardware infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to drive hardware decisions. You will own the near and long-term forecasts for hardware, support deal teams, and our engineering teams on hardware ROI decisions.</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibliities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own the economics of chip and accelerator capacity: cost per chip-hour and TCO across chip generations</li> <li>Evaluate capacity offers and hardware commitments with the Compute deal team: pricing across chip types, counterparties, and structures</li> <li>Partner with Capacity Planning and Hardware Engineering on the financial analysis influencing machine strategy</li> <li>Own the hardware forecast: delivery volumes by chip over time, expenses, and cash flows</li> <li>Build and manage the Machines finance team; set the operating cadence with central FP&amp;A and Accounting</li> <li>Serve as the accountable owner for machines FP&amp;A into forecast and close cycles</li> <li>Coordinate with Accounting, Treasury, and Infra FP&amp;A on accounting treatment and forecast inputs</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Minimum qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Owned hardware, semiconductor, or hyperscaler capacity economics</li> <li>Experience managing or mentoring finance talent</li> <li>Strong analytical skills and the judgment to turn an ambiguous structure